Goods Quotes
620 Goods quotes by 503 unique authors
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Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that…
— Arie de Geus
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I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less…
— Barack Obama
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Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that…
— Barack Obama
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I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and…
— Frank Knight
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The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods
— Vilfredo Pareto
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Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the…
— Augustin Thierry
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A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and…
— George Soros
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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions…
— Pope John Paul II
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Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so workers have the…
— Jose Mujica
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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.
— Irvin S. Cobb
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Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of…
— Robert Heilbroner
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The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is…
— Pope Francis
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Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early…
— Zhuangzi
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Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to…
— Pope Pius XI
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Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay higher taxes so…
— Pope Paul VI
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This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material…
— St. Catherine of Siena
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Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of…
— Unknown Author
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But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God…
— John the Apostle
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One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our…
— Paul Keating
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The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous…
— Raimond Gaita
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